Posted on 05/05/2021 10:20:27 AM PDT by bryan999
Lurking among the jubilant americans venturing back out to bars and planning their summer-wedding travel is a different group: liberals who aren’t quite ready to let go of pandemic restrictions. For this subset, diligence against COVID-19 remains an expression of political identity—even when that means overestimating the disease’s risks or setting limits far more strict than what public-health guidelines permit. In surveys, Democrats express more worry about the pandemic than Republicans do. People who describe themselves as “very liberal” are distinctly anxious. This spring, after the vaccine rollout had started, a third of very liberal people were “very concerned” about becoming seriously ill from COVID-19, compared with a quarter of both liberals and moderates, according to a study conducted by the University of North Carolina political scientist Marc Hetherington. And 43 percent of very liberal respondents believed that getting the coronavirus would have a “very bad” effect on their life, compared with a third of liberals and moderates.
Last year, when the pandemic was raging and scientists and public-health officials were still trying to understand how the virus spread, extreme care was warranted. People all over the country made enormous sacrifices—rescheduling weddings, missing funerals, canceling graduations, avoiding the family members they love—to protect others. Some conservatives refused to wear masks or stay home, because of skepticism about the severity of the disease or a refusal to give up their freedoms. But this is a different story, about progressives who stressed the scientific evidence, and then veered away from it.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Yeah. Who didn’t see this coming.
Tyrants at all levels love their control. Even Petty Tyrants.
I went to have my car fixed today, and in the room full of people (about 15-20) I was the only one not wearing a mask...
They forgot to ask, “Do you have sex with children?”
Democrats 50%
Republicans 2%
And, “Do you have sex with animals?”
Democrats 80%
Republicans 2%.
Quit lockdown??
What? And give up POWER???
“...came out the door, ripped off his mask and growled, “I’m sick of this s**t!”...”
I’ve been that guy for months!!
Interesting chart—thanks.
Years ago Robert Anton Wilson would do an experiment to start out all of his speeches. He made sure the auditorium had only one entrance available.
He waited until the audience was fully seated and the doors were closed.
Then he pointed to a whiteboard that had a list of numbers, starting with zero and going up to ten with a ten plus as an additional choice.
Then he asked the audience a simple question.
How many paintings were on the wall immediately outside the auditorium?
The answers really did range from zero to ten plus with an almost equal distribution among one, two, three, four etc.
He had proved it—we all perceive the world differently—very differently—from each other.
The point is that we should not get angry with people who disagree with us—they literally live in a different world!
I have been that guy from the start. I am self educated, the virus is smaller than any mask filters to. ANY MASK.
“Why cain’t I quit you, Lockdown?”
Even outside in the sunshine and fresh air they are huddled in to little balls in their chairs, they don't want to move and they are wearing that stupid mask.
This is not healthy.
Not good enough for what/whom? What a turd. Progressive tyrants.
They’re just being good little Nazis.
I think there is a meme there somewhere:
“Hypochondria is hazardous to your health.”
I wonder if they realize that Life, is a Terminal disease and kills everyone that has it?
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The mask wrappings themselves assure us they don’t stop infection - it says it right on the label!
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